Poet Affinities
Every poet has a thematic centre of gravity averaged from their critiqued poems. Here we use that to find the poets whose work rhymes with a given writer — often in surprising ways.
Poets whose work rhymes most with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
86% affinity
bio 81% · poems 93%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
85% affinity
bio 78% · poems 94%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
84% affinity
Shared: life
bio 76% · poems 94%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
84% affinity
bio 77% · poems 92%
John Greenleaf Whittier
17 December 1807–7 September 1892 (~85)
83% affinity
bio 80% · poems 88%
Robert Frost
26 March 1874–29 January 1963 (~89)
83% affinity
bio 76% · poems 91%
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894 (~85)
83% affinity
bio 75% · poems 93%
John Gould Fletcher
3 January 1886–20 May 1950 (~64)
82% affinity
Shared: harvard university
bio 77% · poems 89%
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
82% affinity
bio 74% · poems 92%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
82% affinity
bio 75% · poems 91%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
82% affinity
bio 77% · poems 87%
William Cullen Bryant
3 November 1794–12 June 1878 (~84)
82% affinity
bio 74% · poems 91%